User guide

• Raster image files – (*.bil, *.sid, *.gen, *.adf, *.img, *.ntf, *.ecw, *.url, *.tif, *.grc, *.bmp, *.gif, *.tga,
*.jpg, *.pcx, *. jp2, *.j2k, *.png, *.psd, *.wmf, *.emf, *.map)
• SHP – ESRI Shapefiles
• TXT – Delimited ASCII files
• WKS – Lotus 1-2-3 files (*.wk1, *.wks, *.wk3, *.wk4)
• WOR – MapInfo workspace files
• MWS – apInfo workspace files
• XLS – Microsoft Excel files
• XLSX – Microsoft Excel 2007 or later files
• Grid images – (*.adf, *.flt, *.txt, *.asc, *.img, *.dem, *.dt0, *.dt1, *.dt2, *.mig, *.grd). This release does
not support .XLSM and .XLSB Excel files.
Grid Format Direct Support: The following grid handlers support direct read of DEM-USGS Text
(.dem); GTOPO30 (.dem) and DTED levels 1, 2, 3 (.dt0, .dt1, .dt2). These grid handlers are
Note:
read-only; they cannot be used to create grid files during the Create Grid Thematic interpolation
process.
Importing File Formats
You can import the following file formats into MapInfo Professional using the Universal Translator (on
the File menu point to Universal Translator):
• Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF (.dxf, .dwg) — up to AutoCAD rel 2013
• Bentley MicroStation Design 7 (.dgn)
• Bentley MicroStation Design 8 (.pos, .fc1, .dgn)
• ESRI ArcInfo Export (.e00)
• ESRI ArcSDE
• ESRI Geodatabase (Personal Geodatabase) (.mdb)
• ESRI Shapefile (.shp)
• Google Earth KML (.kmz, kml)
• Spatial Data Transfer Standard, such as TR01CATD.DDF (*CATD.DFF)
• Vector Product Format (VPF) Coverage, such as POAREA.AFT, POLINE.LFT, POPOINT.PFT (.*ft)
You can import the following file formats into MapInfo Professional on the Table menu by pointing to
Import:
• DXF – The graphic/data interchange format (DXF) for AutoCAD and other CAD packages
• GML – OS MasterMap format
• GML, XML – Geographic Markup Language (GML) 2.1
• IMG – A file format for MapInfo Professional for DOS image files
• MBI – MapInfo Professional Boundary Interchange format (MBI) An ASCII file for MapInfo DOS
boundary files.
• MIF – MapInfo Professional Interchange Format (MIF) MapInfo Professional’s data interchange format
(ASCII file format).
• MMI – MapInfo DOS MMI
You can download raster handlers for NIMA formats such as ADRG, CADRG, ASRP, CIB, USRP,
and NITF formats from the Pitney Bowes Software Inc. website or get them from the Installation
DVD.
Note:
MapInfo Professional imports graphics and textual information from MapInfo Professional Interchange
Format, DXF, MBI, and MMI files. MapInfo Professional imports only graphics from IMG.
Supported Raster Image File Formats
The following are the Raster image file formats that MapInfo Professional supports:
• ADF – ArcInfo coverage Data File (ADF)
• ASC – ASCII text file
• BIL – Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre (SPOT) satellite images Spot Image Formats 1.5 and
4.0: 8 Bit Gray, Format 1.5, 8 Bit Gray, Format 4.0, 24 Bit Color, Format 1.5, 24 Bit Color, Format 4.0
• BMP – Windows bitmap (BMP) Monochrome: 8 Bit Color, 24 Bit Color
• filename.* – Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphic (CADRG) format
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MapInfo Professional Data File Support